I agree. If you want up to date, you'll have to do twice as much work
with Knoppix. Does anyone out there have a set of tools that they use
to build a knoppix cd when they need to upgrade a single (or small set)
of utilities within the distro?
Jacob
Todd Towles wrote:
Knoppix is good and very useful, but has drawbacks. You can't keep it
very up-to-date and you have to run it all the CD. The new version of
Nmap (3.55) has really good OS detection and of course you wouldn't have
that in Knoppix. I use Knoppix and Knoppix-STD for Kismet and Airsnort
mostly. Or just messsing around at Startbucks ;)
But to really get the newest tools, you need to have a linux box and
learn to work with apps on it.
Just 2c
-----Original Message-----
From: Jacob Uecker [mailto:jacob@juecker.net]
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 11:32 AM
To: DeMott Jared; pen-test@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Exploit Archive
I don't personally have an exploit library per se but you can check out
www.packetstormsecurity.org They post exploits as they are published.
As far as methodology is concerned, take a look at
http://www.isecom.org/projects/osstmm.shtml
VMware is good for some applications, but it doesn't allow you the guest
OS control over the hardware like you could have if you were running it
right off the box. A lot of people use KNOPPIX on their Windows boxes.
Regards,
Jacob
DeMott Jared wrote:
Gang:
I was wondering if anyone has a nice archive of Windows, Unix, etc.
exploits (fully functional) they'd be willing to share. I'm about to
do the first pen-test of our network. I know that I can identify
"potential" flaws using Nessus, but my boss has asked that I prove to
him each and every "potential" weakness. I've been told that you can
find many exploits out on the web, but it's been such a hassle trying
to find all of what I'm looking for!
Also, I've been reading the discussion about methodology some people
have been having:
1.) Vulnerability Assessment 2.) Penetration Test
-Gather data -Pretend
not
to know data
-Assess potential weakness -Try to Hack into
the network
-Determine what current patch levels are -Report successes or
failures
(does someone have this data?)
-Recommend all necessary corrections
Does anyone have a more complete methodology paper? I've been hearing
some of the pros and cons of the above two. Do you normally do both,
or just whatever people what? I assume the first is more difficult
and time consuming; is that true?
The approach is certainly important, but even more intimidating: I
feel like I need to know everything about varying brands of firewalls,
routers, switches/hubs, VLANs, VPNs, Web Applications, Windows, Unix,
Netware, etc., etc., etc.! I'm pretty experienced in Unix and
Firewalls, but does anyone have any advise on dealing with the shear
magnitude of data necessary? Also, from the more practical tools
stand point, do you guys just have everything loaded on one "attack"
laptop.
Dual boot, or VmWare?
Thanks so much!
Jared DeMott
Vulnerability Analyst
Booz | Allen | Hamilton
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